Christopher Cantwell

Compelled to OBLIVION, driven to ENTROPY, all life in our cosmos can only end in one place: COMPLETE ANNIHILATION! For the first time in 70 years, the limitless fury of EC Comics rages back to life to shred the very fabric of the universe itself—and wrench bizarre tales of time and space into our dimensional plane! Our guides across this riveting introduction to a cosmic maelstrom of strange extraterrestrial entities, malevolent scientists, and terrifying technological catastrophe? Learn to fear the void with the irradiated imaginations of writers Corinna Bechko (Invisible Republic, The Space Between), Christopher Cantwell (Thanos), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT), Stephanie Phillips (Phoenix), Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman), and more as they collide with the wondrously destructive visions of artists Jonathan Case (Green River Killer), Kano (Gotham Central), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Alison Sampson (Department of Truth), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place), Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer: Reborn) and many more! The unpredictable return of EC Comics continues here with the quantum comics event of the millennium! Galaxies will collapse. Space-time will be distorted. And your very will to exist, too, shall be broken. . . . Just remember: It's all in the name of SCIENCE! Collecting Cruel Universe #1–5.

After 70 years, EC Comics—the notorious comics publisher that spawned TALES FROM THE CRYPT, WEIRD SCIENCE, MAD magazine, and many more—rises from the grave with its first new series of the twenty-first century! For the first time in one comprehensive collection, join us for a guided tour of the Grave-Digger’s cemetery on the edge of the endless abyss . . . where EVERY TOMBSTONE TELLS A TALE . . . and the quickest way to etch your own is through MALEVOLENCE, MALICE, and MURDER! Collecting EC’s landmark resurrection in the pages of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #1–12 in one staggeringly deluxe, oversized (7.5" × 11.5") hardcover, this terrifying tome is positively brimming with depraved intention and traumatic tension as wrought by the hands (and snapped by the necks) of serial storytellers Jason Aaron (Thor), Brian Azzarello (Joker), Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), J. Holtham (The Horizon Experiment), and Matt Kindt (BRZRKR), and realized into bloody reality by “all-slaughter” artists Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz), Kano (Gotham Central), Klaus Janson (The Dark Knight Returns), Leomacs (Benjamin), Alison Sampson (Department of Truth), Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls), and many more. Plus: Gouge your eyes on 50 pages of “behind-the-screams” material—including in-depth production art, character designs, and cover galleries—alongside all-new, exclusive commentaries from Eisner Award nominees Rian Hughes (The Multiversity) and Jay Stephens (Dwellings) on the painful (heh, heh) processes behind EC’s blockbuster rebirth.

Born from one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, Eisner Award–nominated writer Christopher Cantwell (Plastic Man No More, Briar) and Eisner Award–nominated illustrator Tyler Crook (Harrow County, The Lonesome Hunters) present the year’s most taut and breathtaking graphic novel event . . . Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who's also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border-if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: Life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been . . .

The Challengers are back to confront mysteries that defy time, space, and everything we think we know! The Challengers of the Unknown are back, and this time, the stakes have never been higher. As the mysterious Darkseid shockwave rips through the DC Universe, reality itself begins to unravel. Ace Morgan, June Robbins, Prof Haley, Red Ryan, and Rocky Davis have been called to investigate the Watchtower s cosmic rifts alongside the Justice League. But when a sinister enemy from their past emerges, the team is thrown into a desperate race to seal the fractures that threaten the galaxy. Their odyssey takes them from outer space to the deepest parts of Earth s oceans, where unimaginable dangers await. Are the Challengers up to the task, or will the unknown prove fatal? Challengers of the Unknown is not only a crucial revitalization of classic DC characters created by the legendary Jack Kirby, it s also a key companion to flagship series Justice League Unlimited and a major part of DC s bestselling All In initiative!

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer meets Encyclopedia Brown in the hard-boiled detective adventure KID MAROON, where big city crime and corruption can only be cracked by the Kid – or can it?“Crimeville’s always been a lousy scum stain.” - Kid Maroon, the world’s only hard-boiled boy detective. Two years ago, Walden Maroon outgrew his small town slice of Americana known as Tiny Falls, his loving parents, and the low stakes mysteries involving missing butterflies and stolen cookies. Since then, he’s dwelled within the gritty, gangster-ridden cesspit of a city known as Crimeville, where murders, vice, and corruption are the city’s bread and butter. Where the unholy trinity of Greed, Squalor, and Despair permeates both the air the citizens breathe and the ground on which they walk – and die. But at 12 years old, Kid is weary. When a string of horrific killings and arsons spring up in the streets, can he crack the case with his quick wits and slingshot? Or does Kid Maroon secretly yearn for what he’s never gotten to be … a kid? From bestselling writer Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, Doctor Doom, The Blue Flame, Halt and Catch Fire) and star artist Victor Santos (Polar, Violent Love)! For fans of: Comics series, serials, and graphic novels: Dick Tracy, The Spirit (Will Eisner), Sin City (Frank Miller), Richard Stark’s Parker series (Darwyn Cooke), Criminal (Ed Brubaker/Sean Philips), Reckless (Ed Brubaker/Sean Philips ),100 Bullets (Brian Azzarello/Eduardo Risso), The Question (Steve Ditko/Denny O’Neil/Denys Cowan), Road to Perdition (Max Allan Collins), Powers (Brian Michael Bendis/Michal Avon Oeming), EC Comics crime/suspense stories, hardboiled detective genre, and Golden Age comics. Novels: Richard Stark’s (Donald E. Westlake’s)Parker Crime novels (including The Hunter and Kiss of Death), Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer books (including I, The Jury), Dennis Lahane books (including Mystic River and Shutter Island), Hard Case Crime, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) , Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe (Farewell, My Lovely and The Big Sleep), Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), John MacDonald’s Lew Archer (The Moving Target), Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins (Devil in a Blue Dress), and Max Allan Collins. Films and series: BRICK (2005 film), movies and series based on the classic hardboiled novels and characters

There s something very wrong with Plastic Man! Eel O Brian might be a superhero now but before he was anything else, he was a crook. Until the accident that turned him into the pliable Plastic Man, Eel was bad to the bone and just because he no longer has bones doesn t mean that s not still true. When an incident on a Justice League mission leads to catastrophic cellular damage, Plastic Man discovers he just might be out of time to make amends for the past he s tried hard to outrun or to save the soul of his son, who (unfortunately for him) might have inherited more from dear old Dad than just his superpowers The Eisner Award-nominated creative team of Christopher Cantwell (Briar, Doctor Doom, Halt and Catch Fire) and Alex Lins (Monarch) brings you the five words you thought you d never read: body-horror Plastic Man noir! Collects the complete miniseries Plastic Man No More! #1-4.

There's something very wrong with Plastic Man Patrick "Eel" O'Brien went from streetwise criminal and ne'er-do-well to legit hero when a botched job landed him with incredible, rubber-like powers. Over the years, he's bounced (sometimes quite literally) around the DC Universe as a wise-cracking do-gooder, rubbing elongated elbows with the likes of the Justice League, just doing his best to put his less-than-ideal past behind him. He's even become something of a family man But unfortunately, his miraculous stretching powers may have come with a deadly caveat. When Patrick learns that his abilities are undergoing a "rapid depolymerization", he finds himself cracking and breaking rather than stretching and bending. Suddenly, Plastic Man has found himself facing a problem he may not be able to rebound from. With no cure in sight, and a ticking clock rapidly counting down, Patrick must reckon with just how far he'll go to save himself.

Hellcat is back Patsy is living in San Francisco - in a house haunted by the ghost of her mother. But when someone close to her best frenemy Hedy is murdered, Hellcat is the prime suspect Patsy must prove her innocence while evading both the police and the supernatural Sleepwalkers. But how does her demonic ex, Daimon Hellstrom, figure into all of this? As Patsy's investigation continues, she uncovers even more bizarre layers to the crime - and a far greater evil than she could have ever imagined lurking in the shadows Things are about to go from bad to hellish for Hellcat - literally With her very humanity at stake, can Patsy overcome the powers of darkness that have been unleashed? Collecting IRON MAN/HELLCAT ANNUAL #1 and HELLCAT (2023) #1-5.

An apocalyptically dark take on Sleeping Beauty for fans of Monstress and Grim!What if Sleeping Beauty never got her happily ever after… and had to save herself instead? One-hundred years after Briar Rose first fell into her slumber, the sleeper has now become the sleepwalker, and she must face a brutal, bleak world ruled by a tyrant from her past. Burdened by prophecy and betrayal, it will take everything Briar and her band of misfits have to survive the wasteland where magic went to die. As they journey through a land of untold terrors, Briar nurtures a burning pledge of vengeance. But will it be enough to bring some semblance of a happy ending to the land… and her heart? Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, The United States of Captain America, Halt and Catch Fire) and rising star artist Germán García (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land) reimagine the classic tale as an epic dark fantasy adventure. Collects Briar #1-4.